Gulliver's Travels still misunderstood 300 years on

Three centuries after Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels in 1726, scholars say its dark satire is still widely misunderstood. The novel was intended as a series of satires on humankind, not an adventure tale, yet sanitised adaptations stripped out its bleakest episodes. Experts note it remains among the world's most adapted texts, with two competing Gullivers enduring in the public imagination.